protein deficiency
Lacking essential building blocks
Protein deficiency is inadequate protein intake or absorption, leading to muscle wasting, fatigue, weakened immunity, and impaired growth.
Severe cases cause kwashiorkor, marked by edema and distended belly, common in famine conditions.
Milder deficiency appears in restrictive diets, eating disorders, or malabsorption conditions: The doctor suspected protein deficiency when her hair began falling out.
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- muscle wastingLoss of tissue mass
- edemaPathological tissue puffiness
- stunted growthIncomplete physical development
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- nutritionnutrients, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, starvation, famished
- deficienciesdeficit, lack, shortage, insufficiency, shortfall
- malnutritionmalnutrition, malnourished, undernourished, undernourishment, starvation
- growth disordersdwarfism, gigantism, overgrowth, stunted growth, stunting
- body disordersobesity, overweight, underweight, malnutrition, anorexia
macronutrient imbalance type
protein deficiencyvitamin deficiency
Insufficient essential micronutrients